Napoleon Hill Lesso 11 & 12

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Lesson Eleven:

ACCURATE THOUGHT

Rockefeller not only recognized facts that affected his business, wherever and whenever

he found them, but he made it his business to search for them until he was sure he hadfound them.

What then constitutes an important or relevant fact?

The answer depends entirely upon what constitutes your definite chief aim in life,

for an important and relevant fact is any fact which you can use, without interfering

with the rights of others, in the attainment of that purpose.

Do not expect infinite intelligence to bring to you the object of your definite chief aim;

instead, expect infinite intelligence to direct you toward that object.

Ones true wealth cannot be measured by what you have, but by what you are.

Whenever a man truly finds himself at the top of the ladder of success, he is never

alone, because no man can climb to genuine success without taking others along

with him.

We first picture in our conscious minds, through a definite chief aim (based upon a strong

desire), some objective; we then focus our conscious mind upon this objective; by

constant thought of it and belief in its attainment, until the subconscious section of the

mind takes up the picture or outline of this objective and impels us to take the necessary

physical action to transform that picture into reality.

The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between

the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy invincible

determination a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determination; not

errant purposes but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and

danger, as a boy treads down the heaving frost lands of winter, which kindles his eye and

brain with proud pulse-beat toward the unattainable. Will makes men giants!

A passionate desire and an unwearied will can perform impossibilities, or what may seem

to be such to the cold, timid and feeble.

Lincoln on Grant: The great thing about Grant is his cool persistency of purpose. He is

not easily excited, and he has got the grip of a bull-dog. When he once gets his teeth into

it, nothing can shake him off.:


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The desire must be placed in the mind and held there, with Persistence that knows no

defeat, until the automatic or sub-conscious mind takes it over.

When the final chapter of your life shall have been completed it will be found that your

persistence, or lack of this sterling quality, played an important part in either your success

or your failure.

All thought is creative. However, all thought is not constructive or positive.

Thought magnetizes your entire personality and attracts to you the outward, physical

things that harmonize with the nature of your thoughts.

When you plant a definite chief aim in your subconscious mind you must fertilize it with

full belief that infinite intelligence will step in and mature that purpose into reality in

exact accordance with the nature of the purpose. Anything short of such belief will bring

you disappointment.

When you suggest a definite chief aim which embodies some definite desire, in your sub-

conscious mind, you must accompany it with such faith and belief in the ultimate

realization of that purpose that you can actually see yourself in possession of the object of

the purpose.

Positive belief in the attainment of your definite purpose is the very germ with which you

fertilize the egg of your thought.

You can never tell what a thought will do

In bringing you hate or love;

For thoughts are things, and their airy wingsAre swifter than a carrier dove.

They follow the law of the universe, -

Each thought creates its kind,

And they speed oer the track to bring you back

Whatever went out from your mind.

Thoughts are things! This is a great truth. The power to think as you wish to think is the

only power over which you have absolute control.

If it is within your power to control your thoughts the responsibility then rests upon you

as to whether your thoughts will be of the positive or the negative type.

You are the master of your fate and captain of your soul, by reason of the fact that you

control your own thoughts, and with the aid of your thoughts, you may create whatever

you desire.

Failure is seldom permanent. Failure teaches men lessons which they would never

learn without it.


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Careful analysis of 100s of great men and women have shown they were compelled to

undergo great hardship and temporary defeat and failure such as you probably have never

known and never will know.

Failure

The test of a man is the fight he makes,

The grit that he daily shows;

The way he stands on his feet and takes

Fates numerous bumps and blows,

A coward can smile when theres naught to fear,

When nothing his progress bars;

But it takes a man to stand up and cheer

While some other fellow stars.

It isnt the victory, after all,But the fight that a brother makes;

The man who, driven against the wall,

Still stands up erect and takes

The blows of fate with his head held high;

Bleeding and bruised, and pale,

Is the man wholl win in the by and by,

For he isnt afraid to fail.

Its the bumps you get, and the jolts you get,

And the shocks that your courage stands,

The hours of sorrow and vain regret,The prize that escapes your hands,

That test your mettle and prove your worth;

It isnt the blows you deal,

But the blows you take on the good old earth,

That show if your stuff is real.

Caesar had long wished to conquer the British. He quietly sailed his soldier-laden

ships to the British Island, unloaded his troops and supplies, then gave the order to

burn all the ships. Calling his soldiers about him he said: Now it is win or perish.

We have no choice. History shows that they won. Men usually do win when they

make up their minds to do so.

Burn your bridges behind you and observe how well you work when you know that

you have no retreat.

There is no failure. That which looks to be failure is usually nothing but temporary

defeat. Make sure that you do not accept it as permanent.


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Lesson Twelve:

CONCENTRATION

Environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds

is extracted.

A habit is a mental path over which our actions have traveled for some time, each passing

making the path a little deeper and a little wider.

It is movement along the lines of least resistance passage over the well worn path.

Every time you travel over the path of the desirable mental habit, you make the path

wider and deeper, and make it so much easier to travel it thereafter.

It is a striking coincidence that American ends in I Can!

Concentration is the hand that holds that tool; and habit is the map or blueprint, which themental path follows.

The term environment covers a broad field. It consists of the books we read, the people

with whom we associate, the community in which we live, the nature of the work in

which we are engaged, the country or nation in which we reside, the clothes we wear, the

songs we sing, and most important of all, the religious and intellectual training we receive

prior to the age of fourteen.

The mind feeds upon that which we supply it, or that which is forced upon it, through our

environment; therefore, let us select our environment, as far as possible, with the object

of supplying the mind with suitable material out of which to carry on its work of attainingour definite chief aim.

If your environment is not to your liking, change it.

The first step is to create in your own mind an exact, clear and well rounded out picture

of the environment in which you believe you could best attain your definite chief aim and

then concentrate your mind upon this picture until you transform it into reality.

Create in your mind a clear, well defined picture of that which you intend to accomplish.

Select as your most intimate daily associates those who are in sympathy with youraims and ideals especially those represented by your definite chief aim and those

whose mental attitude inspires you with enthusiasm, self-confidence, determination

and ambition.

Concentration is the ability to control your attention and focus it on a given problem until

you have solved it.


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It means complete self-mastery.

Ambition and desire are the chief factors which enter into the act of successful

concentration.

Nothing was ever created by human being which was not first created in the imagination,through the desire, and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Quit living in the past, for do you not know that your yesterdays never return? Start all

over again, if your previous efforts have not turned out well, and make the next five

years tell a story of success that will satisfy your most lofty ambitions.

Make a name for yourself and render the world a great service, through Ambition, Desire,

and Concentrated Effort. Make yourself, your accomplishments and your company

world re-known.

Concentrate your mind upon the attainment of the object of a deeply seated desire andvery soon you will become a lode-stone that attracts, through the aid of forces which no

man can explain, the necessary material counterparts of that desire, a statement of fact:

When two or more people ally themselves, in a spirit of perfect harmony, for the purpose

of attaining a definite end, if that alliance is faithfully observed by all of whom it is

composed, the alliance brings, to each of those of whom it is composed, power that is

super-human and seemingly irresistible in nature.

The presence of some people inspires you, while the presence of others depresses you.

The alliance brings, to each of those of whom it is composed, power that is superhumanand seemingly irresistible in nature.

A deeply seated desire, when once planted in the right sort of mental soil, serves as a

center of attraction or magnet that attracts to it everything that harmonizes with the nature

of the desire.

When Carnegie formed an alliance between more than a score of carefully selected

minds, he created by that means of compounding mind power, one of the strongest

industrial forces that the world has ever witnessed.

The Master Mind was concentrated upon a single purpose, the nature of which is familiarto everyone who knew Carnegie, particularly his competition.

Memorize your definite chief aim so you can repeat it without looking at the written

page, then make a practice of fixing your attention on it at least twice a day.


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Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time

your choose, and you will have learned the secret passage way to power and plenty.

This is concentration.

The principle referred to as the Master Mind is nothing more, nor less, than groupconcentration of mind power upon the attainment of a definite object or end.

Greater power comes through group mind concentration because of the stepping up

process produced through the reaction of one mind upon another or others.

You can do almost anything with a person once you have learned how to influence his

mind.

anything which irritates you and arouses you to anger, hatred, dislike or cynicism, is

destructive and very bad for you.

You can never get the maximum or even a fair average of constructive action out of your

mind until you have learned to control it and keep it from becoming stimulated through

anger or fear!

Comment: Your environment says a great deal about you and your business. Are you

surrounded by people who stimulate you and each other, or just the opposite? Is your

company a learning and resource center? Do have an executive management team or a

leadership council consisting of key people within your company who can use to apply

the Master Mind concept? Are the results of teams or individuals encouraged and

rewarded? The type of environment you have created within your business will

determine its ultimate success or demise.

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